Biblical/Pastoral Counselling (Page 4)
Young Ministers v Old Ministers
If you’re a young minister, frustrated by the older generation of pastor’s and their attitude toward you and your ministry, read this and repent. If you are an older minister who despairs of the younger generation, their new fangled ways of doing things and their almost arrogant disregard for church tradition, read this and repent. Every single person needs to…
Low Self Esteem? It’s Worse Than You Think!
by Andy Constable We live in a society that has bought into the idea that people need their self-esteem boosted. The problem, psychologists tell us, with people is that they think too lowly of themselves and they don’t love themselves enough. If people would simply think more highly of themselves…
Ministry is War!
So says our hairy friend Paul Tripp. Read his article here.
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 1
My name’s Mike Stark, I’m the lead youth worker at Niddrie Community Church. Mez brought this interesting little video to my attention. Here’s the trailer (3 minutes long), which gives you a flavour of the argument. The movie is called ‘Divided’ and was produced in conjunction with The National Centre for Family-Integrated Churches. The…
We can’t teach frogs to fly!
Please take some time out to read this great post here.
Scared of Sin
Good post here from Ed Welch
Prescription Drugs: the silent killer
The death of Amy Winehouse has led to a raft of articles on drug use and addiction in the press over the last few days. About the only good thing to come out of the media circus is that the debate has broadened off from Heroin and Alcohol to prescription controlled addiction. Read the following article from the BBC website as an example.…
How to preach the gospel to yourself…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTc0a_xsCA&feature=player_embedded#at=13] Caveat: It may be confusing as he refers to the fruit of the spirit as the gifts of the spirit, but I think he means that this fruit is a gift per se. Good stuff though in terms of challenging people with the gospel and not with moralism. The key is a change of heart first before a…
Can we really judge if a person is truly saved?
Interesting little discussion here on this.
Does Lust Disqualify a Man From Ministry?
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